nurses utilizing telehealth benefit
nurses utilizing telehealth benefit
Purpose
This week’s graded topic relates to the following Course Outcome:
CO8: Selects evidence for best practices when planning professional nursing care involving systems, processes, and devices for individuals, families, aggregates and communities. (PO#8)
Discussion
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Informatics and Surveillance website contains a number of resources nurses could innovatively incorporate in care delivery. The CDC Wonder site could be utilized by nurses in a number of ways. https://wonder.cdc.gov/ (Links to an external site.)
For this discussion you will:
- Identify one of the resources at the CDC Wonder site above and describe how a nurse might use this information in practice.
- How might nurses utilizing telehealth benefit from these resources?
- Address what you find innovative about the link.
- Feel free to share some of your nursing innovation ideas!
References : American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
American Nursing Association [ANA]. (2015). Nursing: Scope and standards of practice (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Publishing.
